Improvement in water-coolers



wie l VABEL JB., OF SRATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 111,680, dated February 7,A 1871.

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'.lIh-e Schenle referred to in these Letters P atent and. making part of the same.

To all whom fit/may concern; v

Be it knownthat LY'ABELPUTNAM Jr., of Sala' toga Springs, in the count)T oflSaratoga and State of New York, have vin'venteda new and Improved WatereGooler; and I do herebydeclare'the follow ing to be a full, clear, and exact description vof the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in-whch the figure is a sectional elevation.

This inventionl relates to a water-cooler, in which there are two separate compartments, one to contain water and the other tocontain ice, the water-space being 'annular' and` exterior to the ice compartment, and .each chamber having an opening of its own, the one for the insertion of ice and the removal of the waterinto which 'it melts, and the other both for the'injecti'on and drawing off of water, the ad? vantage of this arrangement being that a cheap quallty of ice -may he used, which, without imparting any:

bad taste to the water, or renderingit impure, atv

the saine time answers as well for cooling it as pure and more expensive ice.`

Referring to the drawing, there is, shown a double earthen vessel, constructed with an outerv jar, a, and;

an inner jar, b, these two jars being of equal depth, and connected at top and bottom` by rings c ll, formed allin one piece with the jars, so that there is no communication between the one jar andthe other. The inner jar is open at thetop,'and has a here zontal interior'ange, e, near its upper end, on which rests the inner cover. f.

The outer cover g rests on the upper connectingring c.

This construction of the vessel forms two chambers, one of cylindrical, conical, or other homogeneous shape, within the tb, for the reception of ice or other cooling material, and the other of annular shape, between the outer andinner jars, for thefreception ofwater. I

' At oneside of the outer jar, 'and at its lowerend, is anorilice, laopening into the annular water-chamber, and serving as a passage both -for the injection of waterv under .pressure and for its withdrawal Vessels to be nsedas a'wa'ter-cooler I provideat top with a small` holc,.which.serves the double'pnrpose of vent and filling-hole, the oritice la being oc.

cupied byan ordinaryspigot. But in vessels to be used for holding mineral-water, which are made ivithi ont any hole in the top', my improved spigots, patented November-1, 1870, should be inserted in` the orihcek, and as 'this spigot has a flexible pipe that is connected witl1 ',a"'venttnbe which oats on the' leur- 'faceoi the mi neral water, there is no need, when the said spigot iselnployethof the hole t.

The annular water-chamber, it is obvious, is-pecn liarly adapted to the exposure of its contents to the frigorific action ofthe material within the 1cecham ber.

Having'thus described iny invention, Wfhat 'I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lei.- ters Patent, is-- The arrangement of the concentric jars a b, so connected Athat there is no communication between the two, .the innerpja'r being open at the top' and the outer jar being furnished with an orifice, k, at its lower end, 

